By Type:

With John StermanAbout the event With its daylong MIT Environmental Research Forum held on December 15, 2011, the Environmental Research Council (ERC) fulfilled its charge from Provost L. Rafael Reif to "provide a detailed blueprint for building a strong environmental initiative" at MIT. ...

With John LienhardAbout the event With its daylong MIT Environmental Research Forum held on December 15, 2011, the Environmental Research Council (ERC) fulfilled its charge from Provost L. Rafael Reif to "provide a detailed blueprint for building a strong environmental ...

With James WescoatAbout the event With its daylong MIT Environmental Research Forum held on December 15, 2011, the Environmental Research Council (ERC) fulfilled its charge from Provost L. Rafael Reif to "provide a detailed blueprint for building a strong environmental initiative" at MIT. ...

More than a billion people worldwide lack access to clean drinking water. Sea water is one possible solution. MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering John Lienhard offered his thoughts on desalination and answered questions from the MIT alumni.

David McGee is a paleoclimatologist whose work focuses on reconstructing past changes in extra tropical atmospheric circulation and hydrology. He has explored this area through studies of dust blown out of the world's drylands and deposited in the ocean; changes in dryland water balance as ...

This video explores water surface tension. First, I will drop a paper clip on the surface of water, and as you may guess it will sink. Second, I will put it on the surface very gently, and surprisingly this time it will stay on the surface! Then, I will add some soap foam to the surface area ...

Sorcerer's Apprentice by Dukas. Piano arrangement on hand-punched paper. A dynamic, magical, mesmerizing piano roll rendition. Performed and interpreted on a player piano from the 1920s. We also performed this music roll on a player organ for a peak experience. Not ...

Video by: Caterina Scaramelli Water in the Mystic Watershed runs through a rich urban fabric of densely populated towns, and picks up different pollutants on the way. Every month, at dawn, a group of "Citizen scientists", residents committed to the vision of a liveable Mystic, sample water ...

In 1887, the State Board of Health of Massachusetts began a comprehensive and unprecedented survey of the state's water supplies. Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman admitted to MIT and the Institute's first female instructor, worked as a key contributor for the survey. Richards ...

A Masters student in MIT's Technology and Policy Program, Joint Program research assistant Arthur Gueneau studies the impacts of climate change on agriculture. Originally from France, Arthur is driven by the question: "How do we feed the world? How do we feed nine ...

02/09/2011 7:30 AM Walker Morss HallKhalea Robinson, '11; Pierre Fuller, 'GDescription: In their brief remarks honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two students strike the theme of collaboration. They touch on the importance of humility and listening to ...

This video from a high-speed camera shows a droplet being deposited on a superhydrophobic surface, just before it separates from the dropper. At the moment of separation, ripples move down through the droplet, showing the deceleration caused by impact with the surface, which causes a brief ...